a constant source of distraction and procrastination.

enhanced fanmanship

So st_aurafina made a post which linked to some other posts in which folks re-cast Marvel characters as characters of color, as well as including her own ideas. Which is awesome and I totally wanted to do it, except Marvel isn't my fandom.

But you know what is my fandom, which, despite how wonderful it is, is totally whitewashed? Buffy: the Vampire Slayer.

Buffy Summers - Gabrielle Union

Willow Rosenberg - Parminder Nagra

Xander Harris - Percy Daggs III

Cordelia Chase - Dania Ramirez

Angel - Takeshi Kaneshiro

Rupert Giles - Erick Avari

Joyce Summers - Alfre Woodard

Daniel Osbourne - Jake Smollett

Faith Lehane - Rosario Dawson

Anya Jenkins - Julia Ling

Tara Maclay - America Ferrera

Dawn Summers - Dana Davis

Andrew Wells - Aaron Yoo

Feel free to throw in your suggestions in the comments, especially about characters I "forgot" like Spike & Dru, Riley, Wesley, etc.

Some of these are total win. The first thing I thought when I was scrolling down was "Wallace should be Xander!" and there you go, that's what you did. I also love Jake Smollett as Oz and Rosario as Faith.

If he were younger, I'd pick Shemar Moore for Riley. Also, I think I'd prefer Traci Thoms as Anya, because that works in my head. I suppose re-casting from other Joss shows is kinda stupid, but I'd love Dichen as Tara - I know America has more of the Tara sort of look, but I think Dichen could capture her sweetness. Also, I kind of love Dichen right now.

Oh. My. God. I too saw the Marvel one and went "that's cool, but I don't know who half these people are". This .... this has made me simultaneously want to clap my hands and squee, and shed a little tear. I am already a little bit in love with Parminder Nagra as Willow!

(Not sure if you're aware, but a bunch of these posts have just been linked at Racialicious, so you may get a spike in squeeing commentators!)

This is SO AWESOME. I'm racking my brains to come up with a suitably awesome Spike/Dru combination but I love Evil!Mickey. I thought Naomie Harris did a pretty good psychic and crazy in PotC, but I keep thinking I've missed someone more obvious...

Great, now I am going to spend far too much time pondering this. JKL totally has the goofy and sexy personality traits in common with David Boreanaz, but I would have to see more of his work to know if he could work the mysterious/tormented thing.

I LOVE your Buffy casting, and Parminder Nagra is forever a sweet soccer player in my head but I have to say, in that picture I can absolutely see her as Willow. And your Angel casting made me laugh out loud -- he's so young-looking and thin, and I can barely even remember the years when Angel was lean anymore, but the expression is SO RIGHT.

Also: I've seen Rosario Dawson in three of these posts now, a different character in each one, and each time I stop and think, 'oh, that's perfect.' It must be a thing. And America Ferrera as Tara -- so very right.